Are technology and social media reducing our social capital? Is our way of life in peril as our youth and culture become subservient specters to the soul-destroying harbinger of the social and biological apocalypse: the smartphone? Short answer: no. First, what is...

My four year old was going through my office drawers yesterday (what is it about the office that is so intriguing anyway?) and found an iPod Nano. He asked what it was. I explained that back in the “old days”, we used to use a separate little device to...

The Rise of Digital Maybe I’m just not willing to suspend disbelief, but it feels like digital has been around for a long time to me; I mean, the transistor was invented in 1947 and since then we’ve had digital computing (1950’s and 60’s), digital music (1970’s),...

What’s the business case for IoT? Maybe there isn’t one. I don’t mean companies shouldn’t invest in it; I mean trying to make the business case may be futile. Not that long ago, I was getting phone calls from colleagues who wanted advice on how they could help their...

I got an Apple Watch! I have a confession: I got up at 3:00 AM Eastern on April 10th to be among the first to preorder an Apple Watch. Earlier in the year I thought I’d skip the first generation and allow others to live on the bleeding edge, but by the time pre-orders...

Back when I was single, my biggest pet peeve was when guys tried to date me via text message. If a guy couldn’t pick up the phone or schedule a date for some real conversation, he was unlikely to get very far. Lucky for my husband (and me), many guys went by...